I love the technique used for drawing the clovers: you drop three dollops of liquid green icing into the white, and then draw a pin or toothpick through to give them the classic heart shape. Aren't they just perfect?

Nice, although this thing about St Patrick? he was really Welsh you know! and how about giving St David's day March 1st and St George's day April 23rd and St Andrew's day (not sure)equal publicity?and masks are just creepy and wierd also whaT do you mean paisley, no paisley pattern anywere. so apart from being biased and scary..quite clever I supose. :(

Beautiful cakes, and as a side note, thank you. I know this week was a wee bit trying (understatement of the year) but despite the multiple epcots, you and John are rocking it. Keep the cakes and the laughs coming!

Going to agree - the first cake is a Clover, not a shamrock - the whole point of the Shamrock was St Patrick (who was indeed Welsh, however is the Patron St of Ireland due to the fact he drove away all of the snakes...) used it to show the Pagan masses how three things can be seperate (The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit) but also one thing (God).

Also, please please please America and anll other countries - it not St Pattys Day. He is not the Patron Saint of Burgers - yes Patrick is commonly shortened to "Pat" but more commonly "Paddy" hence St Paddys Day.

Wow those cakes are just amazing. That one leprechaun on Mom's cake looks like a perv. I think someone should keep an eye on him. I'm just lucky to not burn a cake that I make with a mix. Those cookies were just adorable.

#6 Another clover, but since the character isn't meant to be a depiction of St. Patrick, I can get past it.

#7 Amazing.

#8 Cool, except they left out indigo. Hey, I can show off, too.

It must have taken real fortitude for Jen to post the next set:

#10 Are those cupcakes, er, you know, uh, cooked in hot oil? [ducks and runs]

#11 That *is* a cool design.

#12 Classy, and no oil in sight.

#13 I'll have to see the video of this exhibit being made to verify that it really is cake and not something that might be confused with cake. After all, we can't be too careful here. (Actually, we can, but that's a whole other encyclopedia.)

@Juliana: You *really* don't want to go there. Trust me. Better to stick to nice, safe topics on which there is broad consensus, like politics.

The last cake is so beautiful, but I still don't 'get' eating cake in the shape of a head (or any other body part, for that matter). "Would you like a chin, ear, or part of the cranium?" It reminds me too much of the Dish of the Day in Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Love that last St. Paddy's Day cake! (High five to Karasu--Padraig is Gaelic, which is where the nickname Paddy comes from. Here's a non-Wiki link to "prove" it...b/c we all know that a cake humor blog is the best way to educate people.)

And kudos to Cake Wrecks for showing some Mardi Gras sweets to restore balance to the force =).

Thank you, Cake Wrecks Team, for all that you do. You make me smile six days a week.

glad you are able to work through the hard parts of running a large blog- because you sure make a lot of people happy.

I know that there is a certain amount of comfort with being an total wiener that comes hand in hand with the anonymity of the internet- and people forget they are dealing with real people- who have lives and long days and heart breaks all on the other side of the computer screen..

and for as much as you have to shovel through the crap- please remember that on *OUR* side of these screens are thousands of people who also have very bad days and heart breaks and real life traumas- you are a fine point in the day where we can put it all aside and just smile at something light and fluffy and often hilarious.

maybe not the right spot for this comment.. but here it is none the less

Kate FYI There have been at least eight U.S. Presidents with Welsh ancestry including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and James Garfield. Confederate President Jefferson Davis was also of Welsh extraction.

The proportion of the population with a name of Welsh origin ranges from 9.5% in South Carolina to 1.1% in North Dakota. Typically names of Welsh origin are concentrated in the mid Atlantic states, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama and in Appalachia, West Virginia and Tennessee. By contrast there are relatively fewer Welsh names in New England, the northern mid West, and the South West.

and loads more actually the thing is the Welsh were mostly protestant and assimilated unlike the irish who were catholic and stuck out as different giving rise to modern comercial opertunities.

St George is actually of Palestinian origin or possibly Turkish.St David is Britains only native main patronalso George III didnt loose America,his government did and seeing as it was costing us so much to defend from thr French in a war started by a certain george washington we were well rid of it!

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